Moody's Corporation logo is photographed on the firm's headquarters in Lower Manhattan, NY. A former longtime general counsel to Moody's has pleaded guilty to willfully failing to file federal income tax returns, federal prosecutors in New Jersey said Friday. Goggins pleaded guilty on Thursday before a federal magistrate judge in Newark, New Jersey, prosecutors said. "Mr. Goggins deeply regrets and accepts full responsibility for failing to file certain personal income tax returns," Christopher Ferguson, a lawyer for Goggins, said in a statement. Goggins retired from Moody's in September after more than two decades and was replaced as general counsel by Richard Steele.

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